Streetscene Operative (Cleansing)

Chorley Council and South Ribble Borough Council; Chorley; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Local Government pension scheme

Healthcare Cash Plan

Cashback website access

Free parking on site

Flexible rota arrangements

Job summary

Chorley Council and South Ribble Borough Council is seeking Streetscene Operatives (Cleansing) to join cleansing teams across the borough. The role is full-time (36.25 hours per week) on a fixed-term basis for 12 months, based at Moss Side Depot, Leyland, delivering street cleansing, fly tipping removal, and daily upkeep of parks and streets.

You will work outdoors, operate cleansing tools and vehicles, and follow health and safety protocols.

Qualifications

• A clean driving licence is required.
• Team player and good communicator.
• Experience working with light duties.
• Ability to operate cleansing vehicles and tools while following safety protocols.

Responsibilities

• You will be involved in street cleansing tasks such as removal of fly tipping and daily cleansing of local areas.
• To complete daily schedules utilising digital platforms.
• Always maintaining health and safety protocols whilst working.
• Operate cleansing tools and vehicles.
• Responding to minor emergencies such as flooding, obstructions, and damaged street furniture.

Skills

Clean driving licence

Job description

About The Role

• Role: Streetscene Operative (Cleansing)
• Location: Moss Side Depot, Leyland
• Contract: Full time (36.25 hours per week) / Fixed Term (12 months)
• Salary: £26,846 - £27,274
• Closing Date: 17 November 2026

Are you looking for a role within local government? Are you looking for a role that involves working outside, somewhere where you can really take some pride in your work?

We are looking for a number of Streetscene Operatives to join our borough-based cleansing teams. In this role, you will be working all around the borough in an extremely varied role, looking after the borough’s community spaces, parks, and streets. You will be ensuring that they are in perfect condition for the residents, wider community, and visitors to the borough.

What will your role include?

• You will get involved with street cleansing tasks such as removal of fly tipping and daily cleansing of local areas.
• To complete daily schedules utilising digital platforms.
• Always maintaining health and safety protocols whilst working
• Operate cleansing tools and vehicles
• Responding to minor emergencies such as flooding, obstructions, and damaged street furniture.

Who we are looking for?

• You will be helping keep community spaces looking their best, so we are looking for someone who can really take pride in their work.
• A team player and good communicator
• Experience working with light
• You will be operating various vehicles in this role, so you will need to have a valid clean driving licence

Our Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (and Christmas shutdown)
• Local Government pension scheme
• Healthcare Cash Plan for cash back on health treatments
• Cashback website access for savings on brands you love
• Free parking on site
• Flexible rota arrangements

About Us

At South Ribble Council, our mission is to provide a first-class service and improve the quality of life for our communities. Our staff are our greatest resource in helping us achieve this. They’re at the heart of everything we do and are crucial to the delivery of excellent services.

Working Together

We share a number of our services with Chorley Council. This allows for improved resilience across both councils and provides numerous benefits to our operations. Whilst some staff and back-end processes are shared between the Councils, both Councils still retain sovereignty and have separatestrategies and corporate plans.

Additional information

For a chat about the role, contact Martin Henderson by email at [e-mail]

To meet service needs, there may be a requirement at times to temporarily adjust your working pattern to a later shift, approximately 5:30pm to 1:30am. These changes would be for short periods of 1 week and scheduled twice per year. We will always aim to give you at least one month’s notice of any change to your usual hours. When working these later shifts, you will receive the appropriate night work enhanced payments.

Equal Opportunities

We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to the elimination of unfair and unlawful discrimination and prejudice in all our policies, procedures, and practices.

We’re committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and accessible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process, please contact us via the "Contact Us" page on our website.

If you are disabled or your last employer was the armed forces, and you meet all the essential criteria of a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.